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Imbalance of world heritage list: Did the UNESCO strategy work?

Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage. However, the imbalance of … the distribution of Sites according to countries and continents is striking. Consequently, the World Heritage Committee … launched the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List in 1994. To date, there have not …

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Emerging from the war: Gold standard mentality, current accounts and the international business cycle 1885-1939

Hoffmann, Mathias; Woitek, Ulrich - 2011

We study international business cycles and capital flows in the UK, the United States and the Emerging Periphery in the period 1885-1939. Based on the same set of parameters, our model explains current account dynamics under both the Classical Gold Standard and during the Interwar period. We...

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Marijuana on main street: What if?

Jacobi, Liana; Michelle, Sovinsky - 2012

Illicit drug use is prevalent around the world. While the nature of the market makes it difficult to determine the …

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The effects of airline alliances: what do the aggregate data say?

Gagnepain, Philippe; Marín, Pedro L. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 3, pp. 251-276

We consider an empirical model of worldwide airline alliances that we apply to a large set of companies for the period 19952000. Using observations at the network level, we estimate a cost, capacity, and demand system that accounts for cross-price elasticities. Our contribution consists in...

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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence

Dolado, Juan J. Dolado; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 367-393

This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some...

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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review

Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5

Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...

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What international monetary system for a fast-changing world economy

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2011

long-term evolution of the balance of economic weight in the world economy. Such an evolution may mitigate some flaws of …

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Real effective exchange rates for 178 countries: A new database

Darvas, Zsolt - 2012

We use data on exchange rates and consumer price indices and the weighting matrix derived by Bayoumi, Lee and Jaewoo (2006) to calculate consumer price index-based REER. The main novelties of our database are that (1) it includes data for 178 countries - many more than in any other publicly...

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The crisis: Policy lessons and policy challenges

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coeuré, Benoît; Jacquet, Pierre - 2009

We review the competing explanations of the 2007-2008 global crisis, recall how governments around the world had to …-bail-out world, the trade-off between financial stability and the cost of capital, the feasibility for central banks to manage their …

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Reform of the global financial architecture

Schinasi, Garry J.; Truman, Edwin M. - 2010

This paper examines the implications of the global financial crisis of 2007-10 for reform of the global financial architecture, in particular the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board and their interaction. These two institutions are not fully comparable, but they must...

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